Scholarly Communication in General

Scholarly Communication 101: Starting with the Basics
ACRL is extending the reach of this half-day workshop offered at the ACRL 14th National Conference in Seattle and subsequently offered to five locations around the country in summer 2009. We encourage librarians to make use of these materials to enhance their own knowledge or adapt them to offer related workshops on their own campuses. Presentations:

• Introduction: Scholarly communication system
• Economics
  
• Copyright and author rights
  
• Open access and openness as a principle
  
• New models and modes of scholarly publishing

Scholarly Communication: A System in Crisis. Lee Van Orsdel From a NASIG annual conference program, Denver, Colorado, May 2006. An overview of the issues that are swirling around in the scholarly communications environment, including the evolving arenas of public policy, faculty advocacy, and open access agendas.

An Evolving Landscape: Addressing Access Issues in Academic and Research Publishing Today. Richard Fyffe. From the Research Institute at Marquette University on September 2008 focusing on key trends in access to academic publishing.

Institutional Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy: Ensuring Deposit Rights
From the Association of Research Libraries and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
Find source ppt files and resrouces referenced during a webcast exploring the legal aspects of author rights management within the context of the Public Access Policy adopted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Institutions confront a key set of issues raised by the need to ensure that authors maintain the legal rights required to allow compliance with the new policy. A related Guide for Research Universities to the NIH policy is also available.

Digital Repositories

Changing Scholarly Communications and the Role of an Institutional Repository in the Digital Landscape. Marilyn S. Billings. A presentation to the University of Maine faculty, librarians, and administration on scholarly communication with a focus on UMass's institutional repository.

At Your Service: Development of the DigitalCommons at CalPoly. Marisa Ramirez. A presentation on workflow, outreach and lessons learned given at the Institutional Repository Colloquium, October 2008 at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo.

Advocacy

Developing Effective Scholarly Communication Advocates: A Case Study. Sara Fuchs and Pamela Brannon. A presentation highlighting the scholarly communication training and outreach program at Georgia State University.

The Liaison Role in Scholarly Communication. Trish Rosseel and Lynne Woodruff. From the British Columbia Research Libraries Group workshop on Scholarly Communication, June 2007 on developing effective faculty liaison relationships.